Exchange Rates and Jobs: What Do We Learn from Job Flows?

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

No 6864, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Currency fluctuations provide a substantial source of movements in relative prices that is largely exogenous to the firm. This paper evaluates empirically and theoretically the importance of exchange rate movements on job reallocation across and within sectors. The objective is (1) to provide accurate estimates of the impact of exchange rate fluctuations and (2) to further our understanding of how reallocative shocks propagate through the economy. The empirical results indicate that exchange rates have a significant effect of gross and net job flows in the traded goods sector. Moreover, the paper finds that job creation and destruction comove positively, following a real exchange rate shock. Appreciations are associated with additional turbulence, and depreciations with a existing non-representative agent reallocation models have a hard time replicating the salient features of the data. The results indicate a strong tension between the positive comovements of gross flows in response to reallocative disturbances and the negative comovement in response to aggregate shocks.

JEL-codes: E52 F16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-12
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Published as Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier. "Exchange Rates Do Matter: French Job Reallocation And Exchange Rate Turbulence, 1984-1992," European Economic Review, 1999, v43(7,Jun), 1279-1316.
Published as Exchange Rates and Jobs: What Do We Learn from Job Flows? , Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1998, volume 13 , Bernanke and Rotemberg. 1999

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